Ahilan T. Arulanantham joins Immigration Nerds. Ahilan is a Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law and former Senior Counsel at the ACLU in Los Angeles.
Co-hosted by Lead Researcher, Luke Bianco.
We discuss:
- TPS litigation and Supreme Court arguments
- Nadarajah v. Gonzales, the first Ninth Circuit case establishing limits on the government’s power to detain immigrants as national security threats
- Ahilan’s leadership in defense of immigrant rights at the ACLU during the previous administration
- Advice for young lawyers/law students who want to make a positive impact in the field